Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:01:47 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU Message-ID: <20050121005940.J2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050120151005.GA99300@gravitas.thebunker.net> References: <200501200929.j0K9TXbl022106@mp.cs.niu.edu> <41EF92A2.30506@incubus.de><41EFB860.1030606@locolomo.org> <20050120151005.GA99300@gravitas.thebunker.net>
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On Jan 20 at 15:10, Matthew Seaman confidently asserted: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased >> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting >> case that previously I never thought about in any detail. ><snippo> > If your drive contains or once contained military secrets, then in the > USA and probably anywhere in the West, standard disposal procedure is > that the drive be completely overwritten with specific patterns of > random data several times, and then taken to a secure facility where > the whole thing is literally stamped flat and chewed into small lumps > of scrap. Goodness me, nothing like being completely certain eh? This gives "MilSpec" a whole new (expensive, yet exciting) meaning. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 01:01:00 CET 2005 1:01AM up 13:51, 3 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
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